Crypto-anarchist Timothy May, who predicted the appearance of Bitcoin, died
On December 16, the legendary American cypherpunk, author of the "Cryptoanarchist Manifesto", Timothy May, died. He was 67 years old.
May became one of the founders of the cipherpunk movement, whose participants in the 1980s began to promote and develop methods of cryptography as a means of changing communication, economics and people"s relations in society.
He made a number of remarkable predictions - some of them were published on the pages of the “Cryptoanarchist Manifesto” - about the possibility of distributed encrypted networks that transform the relations between citizens and the authorities. Many of May"s predictions, based on his libertarian beliefs, have come true over the past thirty years. Of course, first of all, we are ...
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